TY - JOUR
AU - Martin, Maryanne
AB - In the first of two experiments investigating focussed attention, sets of four pairs of digits were dichotically presented to subjects who were instructed to attend to digits arriving in either the left or the right ear. Following presentation, two different report orders were used: attended followed by unattended, and unattended followed by attended. It was found that unattended items did not suffer from being recalled second rather than first. The serial position curve for unattended items was U-shaped. These results were interpreted as evidence that unattended items are not retained in a limited-capacity auditory buffer with a fast rate of loss. The experiment was repeated using visually presented pairs of letters. A similar pattern of results was obtained, consistent with the hypothesis that unattended items are recalled from a store with a large capacity and a very slow rate of loss.
TI - Retention of Attended and Unattended Auditorily and Visually Presented Material
JF - Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
DO - 10.1080/14640747808400669
DA - 1978-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/retention-of-attended-and-unattended-auditorily-and-visually-presented-29WFSdrvo7
SP - 187
EP - 200
VL - 30
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -